23Upon receipt of an application that establishes to the satisfaction of the Registrar General
(a)
the identity of the applicant, and
(b)
the fact that the applicant belongs to a prescribed class of persons who had been placed for adoption but whose adoptions were not perfected at law,
the Registrar General shall
(c)
in accordance with the facts ascertained by the Registrar General, substitute a new birth registration that shows the applicant, on the date of birth and at the place of birth recorded in the original birth registration, as having been born to the person or persons with whom he was placed, and
(d)
withdraw the original birth registration from the registration files.